I HITCHHIKED FROM ONE END of this country to the other a half a dozen times and spent so much time on the side of the road when I was a kid, I didn’t know what day it was or even care. Thirty years of wanderlust I spent two nights in a homeless shelter before God’s Love. I spent so much time outside I couldn’t stand to be inside at night, especially with a room full of drunks and bums. After a few years on the road I figured out what I really needed on the road and eventually became completely self sufficient. Totally righteous feeling to walk into a town and not only have no idea where you will sleep tonight, but don’t even care. I probably went to half a dozen just to get the vibe of real life desperation and tragedy. The saddest one I seen was in downtown Los Angeles, oddly enough called, “Wall Street.” If you’re looking for the End of the Line of a Life wasted by your own circumstances, LA’s your destination. IF YOU HAD THE WHIFF of money or virtually anything of value, you would not walk a solid block without a passerby whispering in your ear in passing, “Nickel Bag?” Or “Got that Butter!” or “China White.” My mother must have had some foresight in naming “Mark,” because I can get picked out of a crowd to dupe. I probably had a nice pair of shoes on or sunglasses, whatever, I can’t seem to hide. I had a young girl look like she stepped off the pages of Teen model magazine proposition me just walking down the street in Hollywood. People living right on the sidewalk like Bombay, India! Tonight, right now sleeping on a card board box on a public sidewalk….. Blew my mind…. not in America? Warner Bros. Entertainment University of Montana MFA Creative Writing The Dope Feign Shuffle by Mark Anthony Given The New York Review of Books The Los Angeles Film School Los Angeles, California NORML SHOW LIVE - The Voice of the Marijuana Nation The New Yorker Miami Herald Los Angeles Times The Hollywood Reporter @vanity fair thekingofmontana.blogspot/2013/06/you-cant-be-homeless-in-montana-your.html#!/2013/06/you-cant-be-homeless-in-montana-your.html
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